Waterbody / Watershed Facts - Newtown Creek
BOROUGHS:
Brooklyn & Queens
SEWER DISTRICTS
Newtown Creek & Bowery Bay
COMMUNITY DISTRICT(S):
Brooklyn 1
Queens 2 and 5
SHORELINE USES:
Industrial; Institutional; Municipal; Commercial
NYSCDEC
CLASSIFICATION:
EXISTING WATER QUALITY:
Dissolved Oxygen and Total Coliforms are in Non-Compliance (Inner-Harbor CSO Facility Plan, 1993).
Water Quality Decreases with distance from East River. Anoxic dissolved conditions prevail at upper reaches.
Settleable solids are discharged by CSO's; floatables are also discharged but are substantially
contained at several locations by booms.
EXISTING WATER USES:
Commercial and Municipal Shipping and Barging
SOURCES OF
WATER POLLUTION:
CSO, Stormwater and Other Runoff,
Commercial and Industrial Discharges
PHYSICAL CONDITIONS
EFFECTING WATER QUALITY
AND USES:
Dredged; Nuisance Odors/Discoloration;
Sediment Mounds; Floatables
ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION:
None
DEP WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT(S):(WQIP)
Catch Basin Hooding Program;
Interim Floatables Containment
CSO Facility Plan
– automate and improve regulators
– construct throttling facilities to induce in-line interceptor storage (18 MG)
– install inflatable dam to induce in-line storage (2 MG)
– construct CSO Storage tank(3.5 MG)
PROJECTED WQIP WATER QUALITY:
Dissolved oxygen and coliform conditionswill improve but the creek will not comply with standards. Substantial reduction of floatables and settleable solids discharges.
OTHER WQIP INITIATIVES:
None
